If

 

your going to have a discussion about 

"The End Times" 

you need to be aware of certain criterion that will preclude their arrival:

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

The Great Apostasy

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

(Notice the preface, "let no one deceive you", and how it mirror Christ words in Matthew 24:4, Deception plays a big role in the end times and we have never lived in times where there is as much as there is today. )

There are two of them right there:

"The falling away comes first"

"And that’s what an apostasy is: a rebellion, an abandonment of the truth. The end times will include a wholesale rejection of God’s revelation, a further “falling away” of an already fallen world."

"The Greek word translated “rebellion” or “falling away” in verse 3 is apostasia, from which we get the English word apostasy. It refers to a general defection from the true God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. Every age has its defectors, but the falling away at the end times will be complete and worldwide. The whole planet will be in rebellion against God and His Christ."

Will there be a great apostasy during the end times?

Look at your churches both pre/post Covid, you can put a checkmark by that one. I mean people just don't think God exist or that they need him anymore, it's an attitude that didn't exist 40 or 50 years ago, not to the extent that it permeates our world today. So it makes it kinda hard to say: "Well back in WWI, or WWII, or during some other time that suffered other worldly cataclysms/time frame of events etc that might have extremely difficult times, that is not specific enough. The level of falling away from the truth hasn't ever happened before to the extent that it has today, right here, right now, in the times were living in. 

It's just kinda hard to argue that there has ever been an "abandonment of the truth" any more than there is right now in the age we are living in when everybody is their own media conglomerate for the most part. Think about it, we create, we edit, we share, we post only what we want others to see and read, we like, we publish, we disseminate, we don't mention things we don't like, we project a false image of ourselves vis the readily available outlets at our fingertips, just on and on etc. I have a degree in mass Communications, we could do a whole thing on the role of mass media in humanity's abandonment of the truth and how the two relate to one another (As the use of one has increased the truth has went in the opposite direct one could say) but thats a different topic for a different day.

and the second one

"the man of sin is revealed"

We get this all screwed up too. Like Gods just gonna announce to everyone all at once who he is etc. Right? That is how the antichrist will be revealed? This is the way God works? Just tells everybody all at once? 

Not hardly.

Amos 3:7

 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

And like I was saying yesterday, if people wanna go listen to the individula(s) who have gotten more predictions correct than the experts over the last few years, or who have a better more organized coherent well thought out theology (cause its not mine)? Or have explained more complex topics simply? Then go right ahead and go listen to that or guy/gal.

The antichrist has been revealed. 

I've spoke at length at what that entity is so I'm not going to go into all in detail for this piece, okay whatever, Quantum powered AI, go think "image(s)" in the book of revelation. It's all on here. It's not really a person it only looks like it etc, on and on...But as far as being revealed? 

You can put a check by that one too.

I'll add another not listed in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

Matthew 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

You can put a check by that one too.

Gospel was preached to all the nations by the time of WWI? We've have this much deception on our hands previously? They had all this back in Rome? Kingdoms fall, Revelation is a blue print for all of them. But the time comes when they don't fall anymore and the old order is done away with and the one true kingdom is established. People would be wise to understand the criteria that need to have happened to set things in motion

The criteria has been met.

Were here.

And as far as me? presenting a false image etc?

I know what my sins are. Confront me with themand I will say yup, you are 100% absolutrly correct, no doubt about it.

But understand this:

Psalm 32

Blessed is the one

    whose transgressions are forgiven,

    whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the one

    whose sin the Lord does not count against them

    and in whose spirit is no deceit.

(It's kinda the opposite of the times we are living in. Perhaps there is a reason for that? Maybe?)

I love you baby.

I miss you honey.